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kind of action. But I maintain that the bee is capable of modifying his 
actions within a very, and only a very, moderate space. Take an example : 
The c-eneral feeling of the common working bee towards the queen 
of the hive is instinctive. The queen is treated with the most profound 
respect by the other bees ; they feed her, and show her every feeling of 
deference ; but after the first swarming what takes plane . The old queen i* 
the one which leaves the hive, and the new one does not come out untd two 
or three days after the swarming. There are several other royal grubs in the 
royal cells, and the new queen immediately gets into an exceedingly agitated 
state, her purpose being to destroy the remaining royal grubs. But the other 
bees who usually showjier supreme deference, rebel when she goes to destroy 
the grubs. If you ever stood watching a hive before the second swarm issues 
from the hive, you will hear a peculiar noise made in the hive by the new 
queen in her attempts to destroy the royal grubs ; and the workmg bees 
then cease from all their other labours, and proceed to drive her away from 
the cells in question. This shows something in the bee which is a great 
modification of its usual instinctive feelings ; but, at the same time, I admit 
that even in the bee the instinct is not capable of any very large modifica- 
tion even by the certain degree of mental power winch it appears to 
possess. I further agree with Mr. Morshead that the larger portion of its 
acts are instinctive ; but it is a curious question whether all its actions are 
so Before swarming from a hive, the bees will send out scouts to ascertain 
where they are to go to. In my own garden, we had in an open house a hive 
with a considerable quantity of combs. For several days I had observed 
many bees flying about a hive, which was about a quarter of a mile from 
their own, and at last a whole swarm came and took possession of it. 
They had sent out their scouts to -see where they were to go, and those 
scouts must have conducted the queen to the new abode, for if she had 
not come, the other bees would not have followed. 
Mr J Reddie.— Will you explain how it is that you know that scouts are 
sent out by the bees % How do you know they do not go out of themselves . 
Mr Row —I do not mean that they are sent out in that sense, but it is a 
fact that bees do examine a place to see where they are to go to ; and what is 
extraordinary to me is that they usually settle before they take possession ot 
-a place They settle on a tree, and you then get them mto another hive. 
Mr Morshead has laid it down that a bee by a simple act of memory 
finds its way home. Now I dispute that position, especially from what I 
know of them. I cannot understand how a bee can find its way through the 
air by any act of memory. Take a strong case. If you buy a hive of bees 
and take it home in the night, say a distance of two miles, the bees will find 
their way back to the hive next day without any difficulty. I think they 
must have a separate sense by which that is done ; only some 200 or 300 
will go back to the old place, but you will find that the bulk of the bees will 
come to the new place as regularly as possible. And the idea that they can 
remember their way through the air so as to find a path home, I cannot agre 
with. Mr. Morshead, again, seems to think that the actions or the dog, 
